Bread-cutter.



G. BAGKMAN. BREAD CUTTER. APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 14. 1912.

1,038,820, Patented Sept. 17,1912.

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CARL BAGKMAN, 0F JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

BREAD-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

Application filed March 14, 1912. Serial No. 683,850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL BAGKMAN, a citizen of Sweden, residing atJamestown, in the county of Chautauqua, in the State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bread-Cutters, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bread cutters and its objectis to produce a device of this class that is simple in con struction andeasy of operation. A slice may be cut from several loaves of bread atone operation.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fullydescribed in the following specification, pointed out in the claim andillustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of thespecification and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedbread cutter. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the cutting mechanism atanother position. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

1 is the base of the device upon which the bread to be cut is placed andto which is secured a support 2 formed with an integral arm 3. To thearm 3 is pivotally secured as at f a longitudinal shaft 5 provided atone extremity with a handle 6 and at the opposite with a serratedsegment 7 A pair of depending arms 8-8 pivotally secured to the shaft 5carry a blade 9 which performs the slicing operation. 10 is a pinionmounted upon the support 2 in mesh with the segment 7 and having securedto its face one extremity of a link 11 the other end of which engagesthe blade 9.

Operation: The loaf or loaves of bread to be out are placed side by sideupon the base 1 beneath the blade 9 when the same is in the raisedposition shown in Fig. 2. Then the shaft 5 is lowered the segment 7rotates the pinion 10 which oscillates the blade 9 as it descendscausing it to slice or cleave the bread or like substance with which itcomes in contact.

hat is claimed is In a bread cutter, the combination with a base and asupport formed with an integral arm securedupon said base, of alongitudinal shaft pivotally secured to said arm, a toothed segmentterminally carried by said shaft, a blade suspended from saidlongitud'inal shaft and movable independently thereof, a pinion carriedby the aforesaid support in mesh with the aforesaid segment and a linkconnecting the said Pinion with the said blade.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CARL BACKMAN.

Witnesses:

JOHAN Swanson, ALFRED MALMBERG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

